KDE Core Packages

KDE Pre-installation Configuration

Remember to execute ldconfig after installation of libraries
to update the library cache.

If you are not installing KDE in
/usr, you will need to make some
configuration changes:

You should consider installing the desktop-file-utils-0.10
package. Though not required, this package will allow you to easily
use existing .desktop files in /usr/share/applications (and any other locations
identified by XDG_DATA_DIRS), and
automatically add these applications to the KDE menu system.

Tip

If you prefer installing KDE in /opt,
one trick to avoid the above configuration changes every time
you install a new version is to replace /opt/kde-3.4.1 with /opt/kde and to create a symlink from
/opt/kde-3.4.1 to /opt/kde.